Cameron Herold outlines five habits elite operators use to avoid burnout: write a detailed personal profile, schedule dedicated time with family, maintain a public bucket list, follow a strict sleep routine (cool house, red-light glasses, 3 mg melatonin), and exercise consistently.
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Most people are going through the motions. Most people are working hard, they're showing up, they're doing their day-to-day lives. But let me tell you 5 core things that you can do as an individual to help you have a better life. Number 1 is craft that 4 or 5 page description of you as a person. What do you do for fun? What are your hobbies? What is your fitness like? What are your eating habits like? And craft a 4 or 5 page written description of you and your future that guides you. Number 2 is put time in your calendar for the people that you love. Put time in your calendar with not just their birthdays and dinners, but trips with them, times away with your kids. Number 3 is take a look at your personal calendar and look at your bucket list. So I actually have published my bucket list. It's on my website. It shows about 101 things that I want to do or try or achieve or learn or experience or explore around the world. And by having that bucket list and sharing it with people, sharing it with my spouse, sharing it with my kids, revisiting it myself, that helps guide my journey as well. Number 4 is make sure you have a really good solid sleep routine. Here's what our routine is. At around 6 o'clock at night, we turn the temperature down in the house. At around 7 o'clock at night, we put red light glasses on and we try to avoid technology. Then we have a warm shower before bed. We take a little bit of melatonin. I take 3 milligrams. We have white noise machines beside our beds. So the white noise machine sends off noise and blocks any of the ambient noise in the area. And then number 5 is make darn sure that you're actually getting physical exercise.
